The Spring of Prince Syndrome

During the few days of Chinese New Year, Yuan Yuan had been thinking about this matter, but until the start of school, Zhao Guogang never made that phone call at home, and every day he would take Zhao Guogang to look through his bag when he was taking a shower, looking at his cell phone and sundries.

There was nothing abnormal, Yuanyuan gradually felt relieved, but was caught by Tan Ruikang when he finished looking through Zhao Guogang's things one day.

Tan Ruikang: "Xiaoyuan, you..."

distant:"……"

Tan Ruikang frowned and said, "What are you doing?"

Yuanyuan thought badly, if Tan Ruikang thought he was stealing Zhao Guogang's things, would it cause unnecessary trouble?You can't hide this kind of thing from him, you have to make it clear, maybe there will be more allies, and he immediately pulled Tan Ruikang and said, "Listen to me, come here."

Yuanyuan pulled Tan Ruikang into his room, randomly took two exercise books and stuffed one into Tan Ruikang's hands, while he held the other and whispered the story.

Tan Ruikang was overwhelmed, he didn't know what Yaoyuan had given him the exercise book, what Yuanyuan said next made his expression more complicated.

"So I have to find out." Yaoyuan said: "I don't know which woman wants to cheat his money..."

"Wait." Tan Ruikang said anxiously: "Xiaoyuan, listen to me, you can't treat uncle like this, you know!"

Yuan Yuan: "What! Even if someone likes him, it's impossible to be sincere, it's all for his money!"

The door of the room was pushed open suddenly, Zhao Guogang said: "Xiaoyuan? Are you here?"

Yuan Yuan frowned and said, "What are you doing! Can you knock on the door?"

Tan Ruikang was taken aback, and when he was about to say something, Yuanyuan lowered his head to the prepared disguise exercise book, and said to Tan Ruikang, "What did you choose for the seventh question?"

Tan Ruikang glanced at it, and reflexively said: "D." At the same time, he secretly thought that the exercise book was a disguise!Yuanyuan is really a fine person, so smart!

Zhao Guogang didn't notice that one of the exercise books in their hands was in Chinese and the other in English. He nodded and took the door out, not daring to disturb them. As soon as the door was closed, he threw the exercise book away and whispered to Tan Ruikang: "Listen Do you understand?"

"No no." Tan Ruikang said, "Xiao Yuan, listen to me."

Yuanyuan frowned slightly, Tan Ruikang thought for a long time, and then said seriously: "Xiaoyuan, when I lived with my dad before, I really wanted him to marry another one."

"What's this called?!" Yuan Yuan almost didn't believe his ears at all.

Tan Ruikang said: "My dad is alone, but no one wants to marry him. I often want to find a companion for him. Unfortunately, my family is poor, and I have this oil bottle with me, and grandparents to take care of. I don’t want to come. Think about it, a father is also a man, Xiao Yuan. He should also have his own life, otherwise who will take care of him when he gets old?”

Far away: "You..."

Tan Ruikang said: "The people in the past have passed, and we have to look forward."

Yuanyuan got up, didn't know what to say for a long time, and when he was about to go back to the room, he couldn't help but turned around and said, "I don't know what you think, but that's my dad, and I will take care of him! My mom told me, Let me take care of him for the rest of his life! That's it!"

Tan Ruikang got up and pulled Xiao Yuan, and said, "Xiao Yuan, think clearly, don't be impulsive..."

Yuanyuan pushed Tan Ruikang away, he was so angry that he couldn't think from the same angle as Tan Ruikang, so he went back to the room angrily, and locked the door behind him.

"Xiaoyuan!" Tan Ruikang chased him out, Zhao Guogang came out of the room and asked, "What's wrong? Did the two brothers quarrel?"

Tan Ruikang hurriedly said it was all right, and went back to the room.

Yuanyuan was full of grief and anger and couldn't vent, just wanted to find something to throw, finally heaved a sigh of relief, sat down and called a friend.

Qi Huiyu answered the phone over there, and said lazily, "Come to my house to sleep at night?"

Yuan Yuan just wanted to talk to someone, but after hearing what Qi Huiyu said, he wanted to go to his house, and said, "Come and pick me up, call Zhang Zhen, how about we go to the entrance of Lizhi Park to drink soda and chat first."

School will start in a few days, two bicycles are leaning under the flyover, Zhang Zhen just came back from playing ball, Qi Huiyu, Yuan Yuan, and Zhang Zhen climbed onto the flyover in the dark, sitting on the side of the flyover drinking Coke and chatting.

"Do you have a dollar? Give him a dollar." Yuan Yuan found a beggar not far away.

Qi Huiyu popped out a coin, and it fell into the beggar's bowl on the straw mat in the distance, with a clang.

Qi Huiyu's and Zhang Zhen's families are a bit similar to Yuanyuan. Qi Huiyu's father took the last train of reform and opening up and came to this city to do business. When he had some money, he had a mistress and divorced his mother.In the past, the two mothers and sons were given alimony every month, and they spent their time outside by themselves.

Yuanyuan knew that the leather bag company opened by Qi's father was the kind that registered a company in the early days of the reform and could go out to borrow money to cheat money and attract partners. It had no real business at all. He couldn't afford alimony, and he disappeared without a trace.Qi Huiyu's mother was left as an accountant in a company and took him to live.

Zhang Zhen's father likes to play mahjong and gamble. When he was a child, there was often domestic violence at home. When his father lost money, he would quarrel and beat his mother, and he would not speak to him for several days.It is common to give him a few hundred if he wins, and not give him a penny for living expenses for half a month if he loses.

Zhang Zhen's money varies from time to time, and he doesn't dare to ask his mother for money. He also has a girlfriend.Being alone in the distance is equivalent to supporting a large group of brothers.

After hearing Yuan Yuan's words, Qi Huiyu said, "Is your brother's brain trapped by the door?"

"I think so too." Yuanyuan said helplessly.

Zhang Zhen said: "Kangkang's words are actually reasonable, and we can't say that completely."

Qi Huiyu comforted: "Your dad probably just received a text message and found out it was an unfamiliar number. He called to ask and heard that it was an old friend. He chatted for a while. Why are you so nervous?"

Yuan Yuan didn't say a word, immersed himself in drinking soda, and Zhang Zhen said again: "If your father marries another... Hey, it's hard to say, it's going to rain, and mother will remarry. There are many things in the world that can't be helped..."

Zhang Zhen didn't dare to say more, but Qi Huiyu said: "Is there anything hard to say, would you like it? I definitely don't want to change it, to put it lightly. My mother said that she divorced my father, and she must not let me divorce with my father." My dad. If he wants to marry his stepmother, he must listen to that woman's advice. No matter how close a son is, he is no better than his wife. Every night, the stepmother tells you what you want by the pillow, and it is enough for you to drink a pot..."

Zhang Zhenlian winked and asked Qi Huiyu to stop talking, but Yaoyuan said: "It's okay, you say it."

Qi Huiyu said: "Yuanyuan, if your father finds a stepmother for you, you can live in my house and I will support you. My daily living expenses are enough for the two of us to eat in the cafeteria..."

Yuanyuan was both funny and moved, and said, "Can you be serious?"

Zhang Zhen said: "The distant father won't listen to the stepmother, don't say that."

Qi Huiyu said: "I don't necessarily listen to it once, what about twice? How many times? How about saying bad things about you every day? What's not, becomes something. Yuanyuan's family has money, so she will definitely say it, and his father doesn't like it." He, the money will all belong to him in the future... To put it bluntly, if your father dies from illness, the first heir will also be the remarried spouse, half of which will be shared by the spouse, and the rest will be shared by the spouse and all the sons."

Far away nodded.

Qi Huiyu thought for a while and said, "And he treats you as his only son now, what if your stepmother has another one?"

Yuanyuan hummed, thinking that if Zhao Guogang had two sons, he would definitely spoil the little one by then. The little one is so cute, soft and obedient, and he would call him dad every day and pester him to act like a baby... He I also know that I have a bad temper. If Zhao Guogang had another good child, he would be insignificant if he was far away. Moreover, after his father got married and his stepmother was a family, what was he?

Zhang Zhen sighed and said: "My mother also said when I was fighting with my father when I was young, that I will not be allowed to divorce me and my father. Divorce is a divorce. The money has to be calculated clearly. Let a woman I don't know live in her house and sleep in her house. Her man spends her money, sleeps in her bed, beats her son... she will go crazy when she thinks about it, she won't let me and her stepmother, and she doesn't want to be someone else's stepmother. You can get along well with your child, and mothers’ nature is to protect their calves, so it’s hard to have both.”

This sentence instantly hit Yuan Yuan's weakness, Yuan Yuan said: "Yes."

Tears were already rolling in his eyes, looking at the endless flow of vehicles under the overpass, the round halos of lights criss-crossed and turned into countless circles in the tears.

At the beginning of the day, the neon lights flickered, three teenagers sat by the street, no one spoke, Qi Huiyu put his hand on Yuanyuan's shoulder, and the phone rang.

Qi Huiyu pressed the call button with the mobile phone Yuanyuan gave him, and Tan Ruikang was talking on the other end.

"Your father asked you to go home and sleep." Qi Huiyu said helplessly, "Your brother is coming to pick you up."

"Then I'll go back." Yuan Yuan took a deep breath and stretched his waist. After the three of them finished smoking, Yuan Yuan crumpled the box into a ball and threw it far away.

Tan Ruikang came and said, "Xiaoyuan, go home."

Yaoyuan said goodbye to his friends, Qi Huiyu and Zhang Zhen pushed the bicycles, sent them to take a taxi, and Yuanyuan took a shower and went to sleep when he got home, without saying anything.

After turning off the lights at night, Yuan Yuan was still on the phone with Qi Huiyu under the covers. Finally, he yawned and couldn’t continue talking. He hung up and was about to go to bed. When he saw his phone flashing, a message came: [Xiao Yuan, think about what I said, you always One day you will grow up and face all your problems by yourself. 】The letter is from Tan Ruikang.

Yuanyuan thought that he was insane, and he was not from the same world at all.

At the beginning of the new semester, in the last semester of the third year of junior high school, everyone was nervous. The class teacher said every day, "If you don't see the coffin, you won't cry." Now the class leader finally came with a big coffin - a guaranteed quota.

"It's an honor to be recommended to the high school department of your alma mater!" The class leader said grandly at the weekly meeting after the start of school: "It's an affirmation of your strength. Not everyone in high school accepts you..."

The class leader repeatedly instilled mobilization for the senior high school entrance examination, which made everyone nervous for a moment, as if they were facing an enemy. For several days after class, no one left their seats, reading and self-studying in front of the exercise book, as if they could not use up their time for a few minutes. It's the same as getting good grades in the senior high school entrance examination.

Yuanyuan has not been very worried, there must be a recommendation to the high school of his alma mater, Zhao Guogang's incident has passed, and no suspicious signs have been found, so he relaxed and started studying.

Tan Ruikang's English shortcomings have finally been fully revealed. His language talent is not good enough. Last semester, he relied on the sea of ​​questions tactics to support his [-] points.

The distant study habit is very good. After finishing a reading question, he will annotate the original text. Tan Ruikang will be clear when he does it again with the answer covered.However, as soon as the term started, Chinese, mathematics, English, and politics were materialized, and the six subjects were suppressed together.

All the papers are passed like running water, one by one, one by one, just like a robot, the answer is correct, and most of the time the teacher doesn't even have time to talk.Now Tan Ruikang has suffered a lot. English is like a bible to him. He can't understand why foreigners think like this or think like that.

Several teachers quarreled in the office in order to fight for evening self-study. In the end, the new political teacher is said to have cried in private for a long time.

In the last test before the district mock exam, Tan Ruikang got only three correct readings in the four essays, and scored [-] points in the composition, almost desperate.

Tan Ruikang: "Xiaoyuan, how did you learn English? Why am I so bad at it?"

Yuanyuan said: "You should watch more English programs, speak more English and spoken English, try to express your ideas in their language, and think in English."

Tan Ruikang: "?"

Yuan Yuan asked, "What words do you use when you think about problems?"

Tan Ruikang looked blank.

Yuanyuan said: "Let's put it this way, when you think about a topic, do you use Mandarin or vernacular? When I communicate with my friends, I think in Cantonese. What about you? What is your thinking language?"

Tan Ruikang: "Hunan dialect."

distant:"……"

Yuanyuan said: "You have to think in English, and don't translate English into Chinese first when you solve the problem... Uh, I see, you translate English into Hunan dialect first, then solve the problem in Hunan dialect, and then translate the solution into Chinese. The lake that comes out...translate Hunan dialect into English, and then answer the questions, my God, hahahahaha—”

Yuanyuan himself couldn't help laughing like crazy.

"When thinking about a question, it's not 'why', but 'Why'. The next series of processes are all deduced in English in my mind." Yuan Yuan said.

Tan Ruikang seemed to understand something, but he didn't fully understand it.

Unfathomable and profoundly said: "This is the secret to learn English well, ThinkinEnglish. Don't tell others."

The mock exam for the whole district started, and everyone was separated from their seats. Just like the formal high school exam, they were divided into many classes, and Tan Ruikang started running to the toilet non-stop again.

The most frustrating thing is that the tape recorder in their examination room was very bad. They ate the tape while playing it. There was a full 5 minutes of blank time at the beginning of the listening. When the pencil rolled the tape, Tan Ruikang even wanted to die.

But in the end, the tape was not allowed to be played again, so I had to admit that I was unlucky.

This time, the standard score for the whole district was 900 points, and Tan Ruikang's English only got 540 points.

When the rankings were released, everyone became nervous. After all, it was related to the issue of recommended places. The whole class was shocked on the day the rankings were released.

There is no composition in English for the mock test. Yuanyuan English scored the first place in the district with a perfect score of 150. Among the nine junior high schools including Foreign Language Middle School, there are only [-] perfect scores, and Yuanyuan is one of them.

And Tan Ruikang got a full score in mathematics, one article and one theory, and the two first places in the mock test are in this class.

After the final ranking came out, Yuanyuan ranked in the top five of the whole grade, while Tan Ruikang was dragged down by English and dropped to seventeenth.

However, both of them have guaranteed places to be recommended, so the question becomes whether to go to the high school of their alma mater.

There are 17 recommended students in class one, Lin Zibo and Qi Huiyu also got recommended places, Zhang Zhen was recommended to high school because of his sports skills, but he was not in the same class as them.

With the strength of Yuanyuan and Tan Ruikang, as long as the senior high school entrance examination does not perform abnormally, it is absolutely fine to go to a better high school. They each received a form. When they returned home, Qi Huiyu urged: "Don't study for the third middle school, take the first middle school exam." Bar."

Yuanyuan said: "You don't want to go straight up?"

Qi Huiyu said: "My mother told me not to stay in No. [-] Middle School. Did you know that the class leader wants to keep us people, and we will get places in Tsinghua University and Peking University in the future. I heard that senior high school students only need to go to Peking University. His teachers rewarded [-] yuan each, and invited them to travel to Europe."

Yuanyuan said: "The third middle school is actually similar to the first middle school, only a little bit worse, and the conditions are not much better, and we still need accommodation."

Qi Huiyu said: "Last year, they had a few students from Peking University, and No. [-] Middle School only released one every year. Sometimes there were none."

Yuan Yuan said: "But do you think you will be 'one' of those few?"

Qi Huiyu shrugged, and then asked Tan Ruikang: "What about you?"

Tan Ruikang said: "I want to go back and ask my uncle's opinion."

Qi Huiyu put Yuan Yuan's shoulders on his shoulders and said, "Let's go to No. [-] middle school. My mother told me to go to No. [-] middle school. It's good to be better."

It's far away, and he doesn't want to go to No. 45 Middle School.The No. [-] Middle School is too far away, it takes [-] minutes by car, and the environment is unfamiliar. Although the teachers are the best in the city, they are not much better than No. [-] Middle School.

No. [-] Middle School is full of hard-working students, and most of them are like Tan Ruikang, who climbed up all by themselves.Unlike students in No. [-] Middle School who generally have good family conditions, they can learn and play.

It's still a closed boarding school, and even if you want to go to school, you can't do it. After going to No. [-] Middle School, Zhao Guogang will definitely let him live with Tan Ruikang. If you get hungry in the middle of the night and want to eat supper, you have to climb the wall.

The most important thing is that he doesn't want to leave Zhao Guogang - although his father comes back late every day, he can meet him, say a few words, ask him if he has studied... only talk to his father, and know him when he was in school Sleeping in the next room and saying "Dad, we're going to school" can also reassure Yuanyuan a lot.

To sum up, I don't want to go far away.

But he was reluctant to part with Qi Huiyu, and said, "Let's stay in No. [-] Middle School, why run so far."

Qi Huiyu said: "There is no way, I have to listen to my mother, she is only my son, she is counting on me."

Yuan Yuan said, "Let me think about it again."

Qi Huiyu said: "Let's go together, Xiaoyuan, you said, we will be friends for life."

Yuanyuan said: "Okay, I got it, don't rush me."

Qi Huiyu looked disappointedly at Yuanyuan at the intersection, and said, "Zhao Yuanyuan!"

Yuanyuan didn't answer him, and stood on the side of the road waiting for the bus. Tan Ruikang squatted like a handsome migrant worker, and when he looked carefully, he had a different kind of handsome temperament.He started to save face for Yuan Yuan, and the two brothers always attracted a lot of admiring eyes when walking on the road.Talking and laughing, there is a youthful and clean beauty.

Tan Ruikang rolled up his sleeves and said, "Xiaoyuan."

"Huh?" She looked at him from afar.

Tan Ruikang said: "I listened to my uncle. We can study in whichever one he says. He has the most experience."

Is there even a need to ask?Yuan Yuan knew that Zhao Guogang would definitely let them go to No. [-] Middle School, Yuan Yuan knew many things well, but he just didn't want to think about it, what Qi Huiyu said was also right, a little better is better.Going to a middle school is the smartest person.

However, after returning home at night, Zhao Guogang just glanced at the form and said he knew it, and asked them to continue studying.

Yuanyuan has no interest in studying at all. If he is recommended, he can take the summer vacation now and play until he is in the first year of high school in September.Spring was here, and he couldn't help being a little impetuous, so he called Lin Zibo on the extension, and when he pressed it, he heard Zhao Guogang and a friend from the Education Bureau talking about his escort.

A man's voice: "Guaranteed admission is also acceptable. Wang Guangcheng has done well in the past few years in the Third Middle School. The teachers in the Third Middle School are sufficient. This year, two special-grade teachers were hired. The rest is the question of student resources..."

Zhao Guogang: "Baby, hang up the phone."

Yuan Yuan hung up the phone in boredom and switched to his mobile phone.

Lin Zibo's grandfather was deaf, and he yelled for a long time before handing over the phone.

"I..." Lin Zibo said: "It should be recommended. My dad let me recommend, so I can save some tuition fees. Does Jiji want to be admitted to No. [-] Middle School? You follow him?"

Yuan Yao absent-mindedly murmured for a while, said he hadn't figured it out yet, hung up, and asked a few classmates who were generally good friends, and basically chose to recommend it.

"Xiaoyuan, Ruikang." Zhao Guogang put down the phone and put the two delivery forms on the dining table side by side.

Yuanyuan knew that Zhao Guogang was about to make a decision, and when Tan Ruikang came out, Zhao Guogang said, "Bring the pen in the room to Uncle."

Yuan Yuan was a little nervous, this was the first time in his life that he participated in the decision of a major event.

"Your brother said he's okay, it's mainly up to you." Zhao Guogang pondered for a moment, then took the pen handed over by Tan Ruikang, first signed on the bottom, but did not write his opinion on whether he was directly promoted, and said to his son: "I'll ask you first. Myself, do you want to be admitted to the No. [-] middle school or recommended to the high school of your alma mater?"

Yuan Yuan hesitated and said: "I can do it too."

Zhao Guogang said: "Speak the truth."

Yuan Yuan was really hard to decide, frowning, Zhao Guogang said: "If you go to No. [-] Middle School, your brother will follow you, and you can take care of each other when you live in school, and you will not be afraid of loneliness. No. [-] Middle School has always had a slightly better entrance rate for the college entrance examination than No. [-] Middle School. It's safer to read."

"Relatively." Zhao Guogang tapped his finger on the table thoughtfully, and said, "You can only go home once a week at most, leave father early, and experience collective life..."

Yuanyuan said: "Qi Huiyu asked me to accompany him to take the No. [-] middle school exam."

Zhao Guogang said again: "Your tablemate's grades are also good. If you are recommended to the third high school, it doesn't mean that you are much worse than the first middle school. Your principal has to compete for the entrance rate, evaluate the provincial key points, and the high school will be higher than in previous years. They are all about work.”

"The advantage of walking is that you don't need to adapt to the environment, and you two can go home every day. The rest environment at home is better than accommodation. It is not noisy and will not be disturbed. The high school will hire an aunt to cook for you, and you will go home three times. Eat, stew a soup every day, nutrition can keep up, you can watch TV properly, adjust your mentality, and don’t have to live a closed study life.”

"What do you think?" Yuanyuan looked up at Tan Ruikang.

Tan Ruikang smiled indifferently, and said: "I can do it, I will accompany you to whichever room you go to."

Looking at Zhao Guogang from a distance, thinking that he will go to university in the future, and that he can only go home to accompany his father every year during the winter and summer vacations, it can't be said that he feels a little distressed.

Although it is said that after graduating from the society, he must still live with Zhao Guogang, live with him, and provide for him in the old age.

But if I go to boarding high school now, I will be separated from him for seven full years.

Zhao Guogang understood Yuanyuan's thoughts and said, "Xiaoyuan, you and your brother are both men, and there will be a day when you leave the nest. A good man has ambitions everywhere, and you will have your own wife and children in the future..."

Yuanyuan was stimulated by these words, and immediately said: "No, I'm going to the third middle school."

Zhao Guogang smiled, nodded and said, "Then leave Dad later and live at home for another three years? As for Ruikang, if you want to take the No. [-] middle school exam, you can go for it and don't be influenced by Xiaoyuan."

Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "No, I don't want to leave my uncle either, and I can save tuition fees by going to No. [-] Middle School."

Yuanyuan said to Tan Ruikang: "Go to No. [-] Middle School, don't be influenced by me."

Yuan Yuan just said this casually, he knew that Tan Ruikang would definitely say no, so is there any need to ask?He suddenly found that Tan Ruikang was also pretty good, and after only half a year at home, he seemed to have become his inseparable partner. He didn't reject Tan Ruikang as much as before.

Unexpectedly, Tan Ruikang replied: "Okay, Xiaoyuan, you can escort him yourself."

"Ah?" Yuanyuan couldn't help being stunned when he got an unexpected answer, then Tan Ruikang laughed as if he had succeeded in a prank, and went to watch TV on the sofa.

distant:"……"

Zhao Guogang couldn't help smiling, filled out the recommendation forms for the two teenagers, and lay down on the table for a while, feeling sorry for Qi Huiyu.

He regretted a little again, and said, "Qi Huiyu and I have been at the same table for three years, and we are about to separate."

Zhao Guogang said: "There is your brother."

"En." Tan Ruikang pressed the remote control on the sofa, and said casually, "I'm with you, Xiaoyuan."

Yuanyuan thought: you?Are you comparable to Qi Huiyu?

He peeked at Tan Ruikang from the side of his arm, and found that he was also very personable, and he seemed to have been reborn for more than half a year. If he grew up with him when he was young, and went to kindergarten, elementary school and junior high school together... maybe he would become a better person than Qi Huiyu. close partner.

He is understanding, has his own principles and positions, and most importantly, is very reliable.

Far away, I remembered the characteristics of Hunan people that my math teacher said.

Zeng Guofan established the "Xiang Army" in Hunan, where there are many talents. They endure hardships, are tyrannical, willing to die, study diligently and steadfastly. They all have the same good qualities. Tan Ruikang's character seems to be a certain kind of person the epitome of.